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Housing must be seen as a process rather than a product: its values lie in the relationship and inter-action between the actors, their activities and the produced house.
While residents may live here and work elsewhere, this neighbourhood also shows a high level of its own economic activities.
Future fitting is a high-tech, forward-looking, and design-orientated version of “retrofitting”, which can be applied in growing cities from Shenzhen to Mumbai. MoMA workshop notes.
In Rio “pacification” is a code word to describe the invasion of neighborhoods by squads of policemen walking around their guns pulled out, ready to shoot.
Architecture relies on inputs of the occupants to incrementally design a house extension in Sakinaka.
What does the mutation of colonial Bombay into global Mumbai mean for architectural forms and public life?
Can design input be streamed into a process rather than given as a starting point to the construction process?
Where affordable housing is scarce but people have tweaked the system and the land to achieve the best possible results in the given circumstances.